Leadership doesn’t happen by accident. In this Power Bite, you’ll explore what it means to lead with intention—choosing how you show up before the day’s demands take over.

This short, reflective session encourages dental office managers and practice leaders to pause, clarify their leadership focus, and model behaviors their team can see and follow. You’ll be guided through simple but powerful questions that help you protect what matters most—your time, your tone, and your core values—while creating clarity and consistency for your team.

By the end of this Power Bite, you’ll be equipped to identify one clear leadership intention and put it into practice in a way that supports accountability, communication, and team trust.

Ideal for:
Dental office managers, practice leaders, and anyone looking to lead with greater clarity and purpose.

Includes:

• Power Bite video
• Reflective leadership prompts
• Companion Power Sheet to help clarify and reinforce your leadership intention

Power Bites are quick, power-packed leadership videos created by AADOM specifically for busy dental office managers. Each video is under three minutes and delivers expert tips, motivational insights, or practical strategies you can use right away to lead your team and grow your practice.

Every Power Bite also comes with a downloadable Power Sheet—a simple worksheet to help you share the concept with your team, spark discussion, and put the idea into action.

Approved for 1 CEU, AADOM is an AGD PACE Approved Provider (can be used towards AADOM Designations)

Every practice has an energy - and it starts at the top. This engaging session dives into how your mindset, strengths, and leadership style shape the mental health of your team. Learn how to create a strengths-based culture, bridge generational gaps, and help your team recharge without losing their spark. We’ll also explore how patient emotions can transfer to your team (and how to stop absorbing that stress!). Walk away with practical tools to keep your team inspired, balanced, and thriving.

Course Learning Objectives:

• Examine how leadership mindset and emotional tone shape team culture, communication, and overall mental health.
• Apply strengths-based and generational awareness strategies to enhance engagement, fulfillment, and collaboration across the team.
• Implement practical techniques for preventing burnout and leveraging PTO and recovery time to sustain performance.
• Develop boundaries and emotional regulation skills to maintain well-being and avoid absorbing patient stress and anxiety.

You came to AADOM 2025 with big ideas—and left with even bigger goals. Now it’s time to put them into action! 

Join us for this three-part coaching series with dental practice coach and leadership expert Penny Reed, designed to keep you focused, supported, and moving forward on the goals you set for yourself and your practice at the AADOM Conference. 

What You’ll Gain: 

• Strategies to prioritize and implement your top takeaways 
• Guidance on overcoming obstacles and gaining team buy-in  
• Motivation and accountability to keep the momentum going 
• A chance to share wins and challenges with your peers 

Approved for 1 CEU, AADOM is an AGD PACE Approved Provider (can be used towards AADOM Designations)

It’s crunch time! Join Sheela Roth, advisor to a high-performing practice seeing over 1,500 hygiene patients per month, for a fast-paced session of real-world, year-end strategies. Learn how to fill schedules, have most insurances verified before patients arrive, use colorful AI imagery to help patients say “yes,” and apply treatment-focused solutions that keep your day efficient and productive. Walk away with actionable tactics to maximize production and finish the year strong.

Course Learning Objectives:

• Prioritize High-Value Opportunities: Identify patients and procedures that drive year-end production while maximizing remaining insurance benefits.
• Streamline Insurance Verification: Learn how to verify insurance in advance, reduce administrative bottlenecks, and simplify eligibility checks before patient arrival.
• Use Visual AI Tools: Explore how to incorporate engaging, color-enhanced imagery that improves patient understanding and boosts case acceptance.
• Fill Every Chair: Apply proven scheduling strategies to reduce cancellations and increase last-minute appointment conversion.
• Stay Efficient and Treatment-Focused: Implement workflow systems that maintain productivity and set your practice up for success in Q1.

Watch all 5 addresses and earn 2 CEU, AADOM is an AGD Pace Approved Provider (can be used towards AADOM Designations)

Elevate your leadership and grow your practice with this focused learning package designed for dental professionals. Featuring one dynamic keynote and four targeted mini-keynotes, this program provides practical strategies to enhance your skills, motivate your team, improve patient experience, and drive measurable results. Perfect for those committed to personal growth and taking their practice to the next level.

DISTINCTIONcast

Expert dental management knowledge from AADOM Distinction holders.  30 minutes of "cut to the chase" content for immediate and impactful education, ideas, and support for dental managers and administrators.

Approved for .5 CEU, AADOM is an AGD Pace Approved Provider (can be used towards AADOM Designations)

Every dental team has hidden heroes who keep the practice running smoothly, the patients smiling, and the team united. In this empowering and heart-centered session, Claudia LaSmith, DAADOM, shares how to identify and strengthen your own “dental superpower.” Through real-world insights and relatable examples, participants will learn how organization, communication, calm leadership, and compassion combine to create a thriving, resilient dental practice culture. This inspiring session celebrates the office manager’s role as the glue that holds it all together — leading with heart, skill, and authenticity.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify their individual strengths and “superpowers” that contribute to a positive, high-performing dental practice.
• Apply practical systems for organization, communication, and time management that support smoother daily operations.
• Demonstrate techniques for maintaining calm, emotional intelligence, and effective problem-solving in stressful moments.
• Enhance team culture through empathy, connection, and celebration of collective wins.
• Lead with authenticity and compassion to inspire excellence and unity within the dental team.

DISTINCTIONcast

Expert dental management knowledge from AADOM Distinction holders.  30 minutes of "cut to the chase" content for immediate and impactful education, ideas, and support for dental managers and administrators.

Approved for 1 CEU, AADOM is an AGD Pace Approved Provider (can be used towards AADOM Designations)

Join Penny Reed, AADOM’s Executive VP, for a roundtable discussion with several office managers who have achieved all three levels of AADOM’s professional designation program — FAADOM, MAADOM, and DAADOM. Panelists include Chavelle Galton-Rice, DAADOM; Erika Pusillo, DAADOM; Danielle Dailey, DAADOM; and Joanne Miles, DAADOM.

Together, they’ll share an engaging conversation about their professional development journeys and what earning these distinctions has meant to them personally and professionally. From the inspiration that sparked their pursuit of advanced recognition to the ways their leadership and communication have evolved, this discussion will highlight the real-world impact of lifelong learning and growth. You’ll also hear how these accomplished leaders encourage others to invest in their own development—and how their distinctions have positively influenced their teams, practices, and the broader AADOM community.

Sponsored by: CEDR HR Solutions

Approved for 1 CEU, AADOM is an AGD PACE Approved Provider (can be used towards AADOM Designations)

Struggling to find the right candidates for your dental office? Tired of sorting through piles of unqualified applications or rushing into hires that don’t last?

In this high-impact webinar, dental recruiting expert Wendy Aldhamen, founder of Career Elevation, will walk you through 5 proven hiring strategies to attract better applicants, streamline your process, and hire with confidence.

These are the exact strategies used to help private practices build loyal, high-performing teams that last.

Course Learning Objectives:

• Define the role and your next employee
• Craft a job ad that sells the job
• Optimizing your online presence (It's not just for patients!!)
• Streamline & personalize the application process
• Leveraging Boolean searching to find talent while you sleep!

Approved for 1 CEU, AADOM is an AGD PACE Approved Provider (can be used towards AADOM Designations)

Want more loyal patients and better outcomes? In this webinar, Catrena Choong of Patterson Dental reveals how building patient trust can directly impact your practice’s success. You’ll learn what today’s patients expect, how trust influences their decisions, and practical ways to strengthen it at every touchpoint. Walk away with proven strategies to boost retention, increase treatment acceptance, and create a practice patients truly believe in.

With ever-increasing competition and patients having more access to information than ever before, being a practice they trust has never mattered more.

This webinar explores:

• The current patient-trust landscape
• A series of proven tactics to increase trust at your practice
• Trends shaping the trust experience
• And how to put it all together and become the practice patients want to come home to